The General Grant's Gold - Shipwreck and greed in the Southern Ocean

By Madelene Ferguson Allen and Ken Scadden

The wreck in 1866 of the General Grant in the desolate sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands is one of the world's most intriguing shipwreck mysteries, a story that still tantalizes and thrills. For 140 years expeditions and bounty hunters have searched for the ship and her elusive cargo. Locating the vessel has been difficult enough; finding the gold has proved impossible. This is the full story of the voyage from Melbourne, the shipwreck, the plight of the castaways and the search for the gold. Separating the facts from the legends is difficult but the authors have scrupulously researched the events of the shipwreck and examined every subsequent search for the gold.

Soft cover, 192 pages, b&w with one colour section of colour images, 15x24cm.